Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND BROADMINDED USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, et al reside in the other America!

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Coming Out Of The Closet To Higher Consciousness

Today I came across
another Facebook, A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS, and as usual,
some of the comments piqued my curiosity as to why so many people
haven’t cracked the door (even minuscule) on higher
consciousness. So I went about searching Google using different
search words to come across some enlightenment (even minuscule)
to answer this particular “WHY”. My mental travels
across the vast internet brought me to a site that discussed
non-human consciousness, in reading the examples put forth by the
writer, I laughed to myself thinking… OF COURSE, non-humans
possess consciousness and higher, didn’t we all travel the
byway of evolution and because of different forks in the road,
end up where we are today, ME PEOPLE, YOU COW! So with this
perception in hand I wrote on the Facebook membership page (The Richard Dawkins Foundation
for Reason and Science (Official)https://www.facebook.com/RichardDawkinsFoundation) the below (minuscule higher
consciousness) thoughts. Thinkingblue

Many people living in the USA, thanks to
indoctrination by corporate church, corporate politicians and by
corporations in general (via propaganda) are frightened of many
things but mainly of death. It is a pity because death is a part
of birth, yet fear of it turns people inhuman. If we could all
tap into a higher consciousness which both human and non-human
beings possess, the charlatans around us would not have a
‘snowballs chance in hell’ to take over and control our
thinking minds. Let me reiterate TIS A PITY! So ‘in the
closet’, of whatever (scared to DEATH and of it) too many of
us, will remain. Here’s a link to help one find the
threshold to a higher consciousness. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-stevens/animal-consciousness_b_1857667.html
thinkingblue

Brain Researchers Acknowledge
Animal Consciousness by Kathy Stevens http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-stevens/animal-consciousness_b_1857667.html
Last week, an international group of brain researchers
released the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness.
The document declared the group's data-driven consensus that
most animals are conscious and aware in the same way that
humans are, and confirmed that virtually all animals have at
least some degree of sentience -- even bees, according to
Christof Koch in his Huffington Post blog, "Consciousness is Everywhere."
It boggles my mind that this stuff isn't headline news.
Here's what's headline-worthy: 1) why science is so far
behind the rest of us 2) how human animals treat non-human
animals, given that plenty of us know that human or
non-human, animals are essentially the same in ways that
matter.
What would the world's reaction be if the New York
Times' lead story tomorrow were "Chickens
Understand That Their Throats are About to Be Slit" or
"Horrific Confinement and Deprivation Feels Same to Pigs
as It Does to Humans"?
Take a look at what we witness at Catskill Animal
Sanctuary:
1) It was time to euthanize an old steer named Samson. I had rescued him from a horrid
hoarding situation; he and I had been special friends; he was
no longer able to stand. Many of the humans who had loved him
surrounded him, rubbing his massive body, singing. I sat at
his head, and as he was falling asleep from the tranquilizer
(the first step in a two-part process), Samson licked my face
over and over -- thirty times, perhaps? -- until he could no
longer hold his head up. My unscientific view? He was saying
goodbye, saying thank you, and saying he loved me.
2) A hen named Barbie and a sheep named Rambo had a
special relationship. Barbie loved to rest on top of Rambo's
back or cuddle up next to him in a pile of hay. When Barbie
returned to the barn after a 2-week illness-related isolation
period, she walked out into the long barn aisle, glanced
around, walked past the free-range chickens, past the humans,
right up to Rambo, who was resting in the aisle, and pressed
her big bird body right up against his. He turned his head,
and gently nuzzled her back. There were dozens of moments
like this between Rambo and Barbie. For me, that single one
was "proof" of their affection.
3) A former cockfighting rooster named Paulie nearly
always chose to eat lunch with staff. A staffer named Alex
always brought a small bag of sunflower seeds, and after he
shared some once or twice with Paulie, the bird began walking
immediately to Alex. If Alex didn't immediately produce the
seeds, Paulie pecked Alex's leg, looked up at Alex, pecked
again. If Alex STILL didn't deliver the goods, Paulie became irate, squawking and
flapping his wings, unwilling to accept no for an answer. MORE
HERE

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Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and
free-thinking, the other intolerant and close-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND FREE-THINKING USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh et al reside in the intolerant America!